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Bob Iger: Steve Jobs Used To Call Me And Tell Me My Movies 'Sucked'

Mar 7, 2013, 21:24 IST

Photo by Alexandra Wyman/Getty ImagesSteve Jobs was kind of a jerk. But in an endearing way.

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From Bloomberg BusinessWeek's big story on Disney buying Star Wars, there is this nugget on Jobs relationship with Disney and CEO Bob Iger after Iger acquired Pixar:

The transaction gave Disney a new source of hit movies. Jobs also became a Disney board member and its largest shareholder. Periodically he would call Iger to say, “Hey, Bob, I saw the movie you just released last night, and it sucked,” Iger recalls. Nevertheless, the Disney CEO says that having Jobs as a friend and adviser was “additive rather than the other way around.”

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